Agriculture
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| show | Deliberate modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain
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| Crop | show 🗑
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| show | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants (cutting stems & dividing roots)
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| Seed agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | Production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family
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| Commercial agriculture | show 🗑
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| show | System of commercial farming found in the United States and other relatively developed countries
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| Prime agricultural land | show 🗑
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| show | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period
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| show | When farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
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| Swidden | show 🗑
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| Pastoral Nomadism | show 🗑
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| Transhumance | show 🗑
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| show | A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
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| show | The practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth
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| show | Malay word for wet rice, commonly used instead of Sawah
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| show | Flooded field for growing rice
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| show | Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
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| Thresh | show 🗑
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| show | To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
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| show | The outer covering of a seed
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| show | The practice of harvesting twice a year from the same field
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| show | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
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| show | Grass yielding grain for food
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| show | Area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
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| Grain | show 🗑
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| Winter wheat | show 🗑
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| Spring wheat | show 🗑
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| Reaper | show 🗑
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| show | Machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field
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| show | Form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
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| Horticulture | show 🗑
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| show | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
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| Plantation | show 🗑
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| show | Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides
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| Ridge tillage | show 🗑
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| Desertification | show 🗑
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| Green revolution | show 🗑
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| Mixed crop and livestock farming | show 🗑
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| Von Thunen Model | show 🗑
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